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Gallaudet President T. Alan Hurwitz launches president's videomessage series entitled "On the Green with Alan" Who: Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz, Gallaudet University's tenth president and third deaf president. What: A new video message series entitled "On The Green with Alan" in which President Hurwitz speaks...

Hector Reynoso, a theatre arts minor, is acting in his second consecutive production with Washington, D.C.'s Synetic Theatre Company, whose works are purely visual and nonverbal, performing as Gloucester in the production of King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre March 24 to April 24. In...

Fulbright scholar, teacher, and author Piotr Tomaszewski--one of the first deaf Poles to receive a Ph.D.--is on campus until July researching the similarities between American Sign Language (ASL) and Polish Sign Language (PJM). Dr. Tomaszewski hopes to determine linguistic universals within different sign languages by...

WASHINGTON, D.C. ¬¬¬- April 26, 2011 - Gallaudet University unveiled specifics on its newest campus development at a groundbreaking ceremony today featuring remarks by Gallaudet President T. Alan Hurwitz, District of Columbia Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Chair Bill Shelton, and Washington Post columnist Roger...

Washington, D.C. [June 8, 2011] - Visual Attention and Deafness, a research brief published by the Gallaudet University's Visual Language and Visual Learning Science of Learning Center (VL2) and authored by Elizabeth Hirshorn,* shows that people who are deaf develop enhanced selective visual attention in...

Washington, D.C. [July 19, 2011] Today, Gallaudet University President T. Alan Hurwitz addressed attendees of the XVI World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) in Durban, South Africa about one of the most contested issues in the history of deaf and hard...

Junior wide receiver Ryne Worsham (Chicago, Ill.) was named to the D3football.com Team of the Week following Gallaudet University's season opener, honoring him as one of the nation's top performers in NCAA Division III football last week. This marks the first time in program history...

In front of a packed field house, Gallaudet University President T. Alan Hurwitz today delivered his first presentation to the campus community for the 2011-2012 academic year entitled "Shared Dreams of What We Can Become." In his remarks, Hurwitz spoke separately to students, faculty, and...

Gallaudet University senior offensive lineman Caleb Hinton (Knoxville, Tenn.) was selected as one of the best and brightest from the college gridiron as announced by The National Football Foundation (NFF) and College Hall of Fame on Thursday. Hinton is one of 127 candidates honored from...

On October 25, 2011, the Gallaudet University Museum opened an exhibition, "Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers," which highlights the work of Peace Corps volunteers who are deaf or hard of hearing, many of whom are Gallaudet University alumni. Thirty-four deaf volunteers who have...